Re: [rdiff-backup-users] FW: Bug#252648: rdiff-backup: --foo-filelist-stdin

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> John Goerzen <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:40:54 -0500

> From: Marc Haber <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:26:53 +0200
> 
> maybe it would be a good idea to have the --foo-filelist options
> handle the file name "-" in the same way like tar --file does. It
> makes tar read from standard input.
> 
> This way, it would be easy to have a
> --exclude-globbing-filelist-stdin, which is not present in the
> current version of rdiff-backup.

I just added --{exclude|include}-globbing-filelist-stdin options (but
left them undocumented since they seem silly to me).  If we followed
the tar convention it would upset all the hundreds of users currently
storing their include/exclude lists in files named "-". 


-- 
Ben Escoto

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